Acting Quote by Ben Stiller

I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good.

— Anthony Hopkins

I wasn't good at anything at school, and acting was the only thing that I really loved doing and was interested in. It was…

— Will Poulter

I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.

— Sara Canning

I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, much to my parents' disappointment. I…

— Roger Bart

I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was…

— Josh Brolin

I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted…

— Willie Aames

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

— Salman Rushdie

I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up…

— Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

I studied political science, and when I fell into acting in college - it was just a total fluke that I became an actor.…

— Michael Kelly

I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as…

— Roddy McDowall

I went to acting school. I went to college for acting.

— Anthony Carrigan

I had always been the theater nerd at Northwestern University. I knew I wanted to do acting, but I hated the idea of being…

— Meghan Markle